perfection

[ per-fek-shuhn ]
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noun
  1. the state or quality of being or becoming perfect.

  2. the highest degree of proficiency, skill, or excellence, as in some art.

  1. a perfect embodiment or example of something.

  2. a quality, trait, or feature of the highest degree of excellence.

  3. the highest or most nearly perfect degree of a quality or trait.

  4. the act or fact of perfecting.

Origin of perfection

1
First recorded in 1175–1225; from Latin perfectiōn-, stem of perfectiō “completion, finishing”; equivalent to perfect + -ion; replacing Middle English perfeccioun, perfectiun, from Anglo-French, from Latin, as above

Other words from perfection

  • hy·per·per·fec·tion, noun
  • non·per·fec·tion, noun
  • su·per·per·fec·tion, noun

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British Dictionary definitions for perfection

perfection

/ (pəˈfɛkʃən) /


noun
  1. the act of perfecting or the state or quality of being perfect

  2. the highest degree of a quality, etc: the perfection of faithfulness

  1. an embodiment of perfection

Origin of perfection

1
C13: from Latin perfectiō a completing, from perficere to finish

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